Jakesprinter’s Sunday – City

Does not say which century.

 

http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/10/20/sunday-post-city/

The Art in photography

Downpour

I take snaps but I can appreciate good photography indeed. Just look at these!

They reveal that during a downpour, insects will do anything to get out of the way of giant (for them, anyway) raindrops – even occasionally using other insects as a makeshift umbrella.

Taken by Russian photographer, Vadim Trunov in the Voronezh region in the west of his country, they show a variety of insects dealing with a downpour.

The stunning closeup views also show the incredible beauty of raindrops on a leaf, captured next to an ant, and shoe butterflies sheltering while holding on to each other for safety.

Many of the images focus on snails, as part of a series Trunov calls ‘Planet of the snails’.

The images have already become a hit on the photo sharing site 500px, where they have been viewed over 240,000 times

 

Weekly Photo Challenge – Purple

Purple is where Puff the Magic Dragon and the (one and only )  Purple People Eater live!

But when you leave Story land and take off your psychedelic glasses, this is what it looks like in day time.

 

 

Nan Hau is a Buddhist Temple approximately 60 km out of Johannesburg. Beautiful and colorful and each color has a meaning.

Weekly Photo Challenge – Movement

 

Daily Post wants MOVEMENT.

If it is your turn to move and you do it,  that’s movement – right?

And that is how some move on a Sunday Afternoon in Aix-les-Bains

The Birds

No not the movie, real life!

 

He may not have captured his fish but Bruce Huntley certainly got an incredible photo to document his ‘terrifying’ run-in with nature.

Huntley was out fishing in his rubber dinghy on Washington’s picturesque Lake Padden when a bald eagle with a 6ft wingspan swooped down and snatched a fish straight off his line.

The bird of prey came just 10ft away from Huntley’s inflatable boat to pick up his lunc Huntley admitted to the Bellingham Herald that the experience of having such a powerful bird so close was ‘terrifying.’

 

Just to tell you I’m watching you!

 

Jake’s Challenge – Village

http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/sunday-post-village/

 

So by the way did you ever read ‘MY YEAR IN PROVENCE” by Peter Mayle?

This is Gordes, not too far from where he lived.

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Create

There are so many artistic and creative bloggers here, I almost hate to ‘compete’!

We are in the middle of winter so I have te create my memory of what it looks like in my garden in summer.

But let me tell you Hasie (our rabbit ) is creative too. He has created holes in the gate to the tool shed, (even though the fence was put up in haste to keep him in if ever there were danger like dogs).

The Artist!

Weekly Photo Challenge – Close

http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/weekly-photo-challenge-close/

But there is space for one more.

So we live and learn

Never knew

FOR ALL THESE YEARS WE THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A BUNCH OF ROCK HEADS

STICKING UP OUT OF THE GROUND ! !

 

 

 

The Stone Statues in Easter Island have bodies !

If you have been abducted by an alien..

what did he look like?

Methinks something like this

 

 

Perched on the edge of a leaf, this damselfly takes a moment to gather his thoughts.

The fly becomes beautifully animated in this humorous pose as he scratches his head and the concentration can be seen in its large round eyes.

Captured by Russian photographer, Leonid Lomako, 40, the light blue coloured damselfly is clearly perplexed, and its movements are excellently caught.